“And you. Oh God, it all comes back to you. You scare me more than any of the rest. I’m scared that you’ll listen to me now and think badly of me. I’m scared that I’ll never be able to give you what you want, that you’ve built up this image of me in your mind that I will never be able to live up to. I’m scared that you’ll see this and leave, and I’ll be alone again.”
Source: Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“It was not the fear of death. No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over his own shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream, and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.”
Source: The Roof Was Never Empty: A Haunting Metaphysical Horror About Family Secrets, Doppelgangers, and the Roof That Watches
“Not everything that knocks wants to come in. Some things knock because they already have.”
Source: The Roof Was Never Empty: A Haunting Metaphysical Horror About Family Secrets, Doppelgangers, and the Roof That Watches
“What if he doesn’t want me too? What if I implode my entire fucking life—”
“Then we’ll pick up the pieces and build something new.”
We’ll pick up the pieces.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“His walls were gone. Left somewhere back at the airport where he’d had to tear through them to chase me down. Because that’s what he’d done. Worked through his own fears to meet me halfway—the way I’d always dreamed a partner would.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“Yet it was only as I began to interrogate my fear of "power" —he way that fear was related to my own class background where I had so often seen those with class power coerce, abuse, and dominate those without.”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Information is what squelches fear. We are only afraid of the unknown. Ignorance, or lack of experience, is simply a lack of data. Not all information takes away fear, but any amount of it can dampen the insecurities and the killing unknowns of fear.”
Source: My Next Breath
“If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.”
“Talking to oneself may seem odd, but is a powerful self-motivation tool.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams